FanDuel Fantasy Football Championship finalists are rounding right into form as five of the competitors heading to Vegas this weekend had nice finishes in many of this weekend’s large field tournaments. Whits23, Plugdog, Jackandsoda, Spawns65, and Beermakersfan all found themselves near the top of leaderboards the last Sunday before they play for the $75,000 grand prize in the FFFC.

Two Rotogrinders members battled it out for final qualifying spot in the 2011 Fan Duel Fantasy Football Championship and a familiar name earned the trip to Vegas for a shot at $75,000. Beermakersfan secured victory over Uppower behind a couple of monster games by Drew Brees and Victor Cruz. Beermakersfan joins Whits as the only other FFFC finalist from 2010 to make it back to Vegas this year. Beer won himself some spending money in Vegas with a 3rd place finish in the 10K Blitz on FanDuel earning another $1200. (Read More)

Grinders had a tough time making the Large Field Tournament Leaderboards this weekend, but a couple of players managed to add some nice money to their bankroll. The biggest winner from the weekend was thorleif who took home $2000 for a second place finish in the industry’s highest weekly guaranteed tournament, the 15K Bomb on FanDuel. CarpeFuturum has been dominate on DraftDay throughout the season and he continued his success with a $1518 win in their “Benjamin” contest.

If you have listened to the Daily Fantasy Fix podcast presented by Daily Joust this week you know I have been struggling with a cold. It’s Day 4 of this thing and it’s not getting better. So instead of torturing your ears and my throat for 20 minutes, I decided it would be better to do a defacto “written podcast” for Friday because I know you need your CFB picks and value plays for the weekend. (Read More)

It wasn’t the best of weeks for Rotogrinders members in the large field tournaments this weekend, but there were still some familiar names near the top of a few scoreboards this weekend. Primetime420 continues to be an elite daily fantasy player with a couple of 2nd place finishes in the high dollar leagues on Drafstreet and a top 10 in this weeks Fan Duel Fantasy Football Championship Qualifier. Beermakersfan continues to have a strong football season taking the Blowout with a $270 buy in on Fan Duel and added $3000 to his ever expanding bankroll.

Headchopper let someone else win in college football this weekend, but had a nice 1st place finish in the NFL on Drafstreet that netted him $1600. Grinders dominated the scoreboards in college football on both Daily Joust and Draftstreet led by PotentPick in the Dark Prince Tournament on Joust and hixvillehunk and frogman finishing 2nd and 3rd in the $55 GPP on Draftstree (Read More)

This week, you could become a millionaire…no joke. Every week of NFL season, DraftDay is holding a freeroll giving away $385 in prizes for the remainder of the NFL season, with first place getting $100. This is an excellent promotion in and of itself, but it’s also just the beginning. In addition to giving away $100 to first place, $50 to 2nd, $25 to third and $10 to the remaining players who finish in the Top 25, if you construct the Perfect Lineup, you’ll walk away with $1,000,000! This awesome promotion was concocted by the DraftDay team to lure as many new users as possible to the budding industry of Daily Fantasy, and we give it two big thumbs up. (Read More)

Monday Night Football with the Ravens likely stomping the Jaguars is coming up, but with Baltimore favored by 10 let’s turn our attention to Week 8. It was another injury filled Sunday, with a lot of big names going down with injury. In addition, players like DeMarco Murray solidified their marks as high-upside value picks. Taking a look ahead to Week 8, here are my Initial Thoughts on NFL Week 8 Value Plays. (Read More)

Week 8 was a little later than some were hoping for, but DraftStreet has finally unveiled College Football to the daily fantasy sports community! You can head on over right now and participate in any of the standard variety of Salary Cap offerings on DraftStreet. There are no GPPs or Live Drafts available at the moment, but Mark Nerenberg, Product Manager of DraftStreet, tells us that the GPPs will be on their way shortly. The format will be similar to NFL except there will be an extra RB instead of DSP, it will be full PPR, and passing TDs will count for 6 instead of 4 fantasy points. Only players in the big six conferences will be available and leagues will be offered when the conference season begins. (Read More)

We’ve all been taking notice to the new game types emerging as of late. It was a big deal when the GPP and Large-Field contests came out a little over a year ago. Then there were the Sit-and-Drafts, the Home Run Derbys, the weekly MLBs and the 50/50s. Starting this week DraftZone is doing a private test out a potential new game type with the help of the RotoGrinders.com community, and they’re providing $100 in cash while doing so. Thanks Gary Payton! There’s no guarantee the contest will be released to the public, but the information gathered while we test it out, could help push it there. Keep reading to see how you can be a part of the testing and fun: (Read More)

DraftStreet recently announced their plans for two new sports moving forward: Golf and College Football. This is an exciting addition to one of the biggest and fastest-growing sites in the industry. Here is what DraftStreet said in their release:

Fantasy Golf: Leagues will be offered starting this Monday afternoon for the PGA Championship. Scoring periods consist of one entire event, lasting four days. Draft-style will be salary cap only to start. Rosters consist of six golfers. Check out the Rules page to see scoring details. (Read More)